Simon Mayer, a traumatic and orthopedic surgeon, was out of service when he received a phone call from a colleague one night. Frankfurt University Hospital had become the target of mass cyberattack that required immediate reaction. The next morning, Mayer, who was also responsible for the planning of the hospital’s emergency, participated in a crisis meeting with the administration. The IT teams had worked all night without success and a critical decision had to be made. “We had to disconnect the entire hospital network from the internet,” he recalls. “We didn’t want to give any other opportunity to intervene in IT systems,” he adds. As Politico reports, internet access was interrupted, databases were frozen and staff was forced to use paper, style and telephone calls to provide care. “Communication between our electronic systems has been seriously disturbed,” Mayer said. Access to laboratory results or data from x -rays became extremely difficult as systems could not be connected […]
Source: News Beast
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